[bsghirt]

I know it's annoying to suggest that consumer preferences will fix stuff like this when clearly it comes from some corporate design culture that completely ignores consumer preference.

But in this case (a $50 device rather than a washing machine or something) why wouldn't you just get a different pair made by a different company?

[mort96]

1) A huge amount of wireless devices have these annoying low battery warnings which make the last 20 minutes a terrible user experience, you'd probably go through a whole lot of headphones/earbuds before you'd find one which doesn't. (And good wireless headphones and earbuds are typically significantly more expensive than $50)

2) There are many factors which go into how good earbuds/headphones are. While incredibly annoying and unnecessary, the quality of the "low battery" warning's implementation is realistically gonna be very low on the list of priorities for pretty much anyone. It's likely that the overall best product (when considering audio quality, Bluetooth implementation quality, battery life, price, comfort, weight, extra features like water/sweat/dust proofing, etc etc) is gonna have an annoying "low battery" warning.

[igouy]

Do you mean returning the wireless earphones, and then getting different?

[bsghirt]

No I mean just consider the money spent on the annoying ones lost and buy another pair.

No one wants to do that but for a relatively low ticket item which one uses for hours every day it seems masochistic not to do so.

[igouy]

In that case, "consumer preferences [wont] fix stuff like this" because no signal is sent back to "corporate design".

[dbetteridge]

Most decent noise cancelling headphones cost hundreds of dollars, so not exactly low ticket items.